When the art of perspective was rediscovered in the 14th century, multidimensionality of representation was lost, and religious art, like the doctrine that was its cultural context, ceased to have the transparency and multivalence of icons, and took on the opacity of image that arises from the illusion of control over three dimensions.
--Maggie Ross.
'Notable exceptions..Rembrandt's..'

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will be looking out for that Maggie Ross book
best
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